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I get the joke and I know this is gonna be a buzzkill but - is it expected that from now until the end of the universe there’ll be no ad with a man explaining something to a woman/women because of some sexist assholes in the past?

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119 points

I had the same thought and hesitated before posting this, but the facial expressions on the women really made the image and I couldn’t help myself. Especially the woman on the right with blue sleeves.

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62 points

This really looks like a stock photo for mansplaining that the university just copied.

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They do look like they are all quite bored or at least barely interested and like he’s explaining something they know well, and therefore don’t need an explanation of.

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Yeah, it would be good if everyone looked engaged and interested. Here everyone just looks miserable, which is funny even without the thought of mansplaining. It’s like “our courses are very boring and you wish you would’ve stayed in bed every day”.

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Yeah, yeah, I didn’t mean to insult you or your post, I just had this thought about mansplaining in general.

And it’s true the picture is kind of … extreme from certain point of view :) I mean regardles of one’s opinion on mansplaining, but if ‘mansplaining’ as a term should have a picture … then this is a very good candidate :)

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Yeah I agree body language screams ‘we all already know this’

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The one to the right of bluesleeves also appears to be looking at her with what looks like sympathy

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I mean as long as you don’t make an ad where it’s one man explaining to a group of only women who all look kind of annoyed, you’re probably going to be fine.

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Yeah, throw a dude in there to be annoyed too, that way we get it’s not sexism.

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Reminds me of RGB’s answer to “When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?”

Her answer was “When there are nine”. We’re a long way away from being able to have 9 women on the court without that being some controversial, remarkable thing. We’re not nearly as far away from 9 men on the court being uncontroversial and unremarkable.

It won’t be until the end of the universe. It’ll be until the stereotype stops ringing true. Which we are a very, very long way away from. Be real dude, it is not in the past even a little.

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12 points

As others have pointed out, there’s way more to the photo than just a man explaining something to a group of women.

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I going to choose to 100% agree with you and also laugh at the post.

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It helps when all the women in the ad don’t look like they’re getting a mansplanation and wishes he would shut the fuck up.

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Lol. The past? You’re being obtuse on purpose

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Yes. That is expected.

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Maybe once we eradicate sexism and thus, mansplaining.

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No, there’s literally one right there

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